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Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

0 posted 1999-09-26 06:21 PM

Little boy, what do you seek,
...down on your hands and knees?
Have you lost your favorite toy,
...out here amongst the trees?

Perhaps you've lost a baseball card,
...perhaps a shiny dime?
Did I hear right? What's that you say,
...You're looking for lost time?

You ask your Daddy if he'll play,
...each and every night,
And he replies, can't find the time,
...to play with you tonight.

I fear to say, but it is true,
...when all is said and done,
It is not time the father lost,
...instead he lost his son.

[This message has been edited by Mike (edited 09-26-1999).]

Isis
Member Ascendant

since 1999-09-06

Posts 6296
Sunny Queensland

1 posted 1999-09-26 07:00 PM

All too true Mike, and after a while, all those little losses add up and become irreputable damage.. Well writen!!

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A hero is a man who does what he can.
~Isis~
(The Fragile Rose)

Poet deVine

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-05-26

Posts 22612
Hurricane Alley

2 posted 1999-09-26 07:03 PM

Aw Mike! Hanky time! A wonderful rhyme and a very good message...we should give our children the most valuable commodity in the world...our time..let everything else wait!

Tara Simms
Senior Member

since 1999-08-12

Posts 1244
Honea Path, SC USA

3 posted 1999-09-26 07:05 PM

Loved this Mike. I wish my ex would wake up and realize it too. He's missing out on some great times with our kids.

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It matters not how strait the gate;
How charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
--W.E. Henley
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Dark Angel
Member Patricius

since 1999-08-04

Posts 10095

4 posted 1999-09-26 07:08 PM

Mike, this is wonderful, a great message.

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What comes from the heart goes to the heart.
Samuel Coleridge

Denise

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Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

5 posted 1999-09-26 07:59 PM

Another masterpiece. This should be hung on every wall of every house that has a child. They grow so fast and are gone too soon. And the time is truly lost forever. We should take advantage of it while we have it. Again, Mike, very well done.

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Denise

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

6 posted 1999-09-26 08:52 PM

Well done Mike.....as always. So true your message behind the words

Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

7 posted 1999-09-27 08:10 AM

Thank you all... the last two children went to college this year and it only further highlights the fact that time is our most precious commodity.

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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8 posted 2004-04-18 02:33 PM

sad write

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